December 05, 2001
get smushedthere's this new show on the usa channel called smush...OMIGOD(DESS), this is like so MY game! i only caught a little of the show last night (it was late), but i love it already. you start with a string of clues, and you try to come up with the answers, which are all words that run together to form...okay, i'm not making sense, so here's an example:
a tall zoo animal + a big hairstyle = giraffro
is that cool or what?
i love word games...i love words...i love language...i love the different ways that language gets interpreted and formed. people joke about ebonics, but i like thinking about the origins of slang words...e.g., how the term "props" comes from giving someone the "proper" credit for something they've done. it fascinates me. people are so creative with words. and in the case of ebonics, at least, people don't get their props for that creativity. instead, you have teachers and parents and all kinds of other people running around, all freaked out because they think that kids are speaking some kind of foreign language. if they took 3 seconds and thought about it, maybe they'd realize that ebonics and other "slanguages" (tee hee) represent amazing use of imagination and innovation with language.
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